Jalopy
Set during the fall of the Eastern Bloc,travel through each of the socialist fraternal states while maintaining a spluttering 2-stroke car. Jalopy looks to replicate the wild yet philosophical voice of the…
Jalopy is an adventure developed by Minskworks, released 28 March 2018 on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 13 hrs to finish.
What Jalopy is
Jalopy is an adventure game developed by Minskworks and released in 2018. It was published by Excalibur Games. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set during the fall of the Eastern Bloc,travel through each of the socialist fraternal states while maintaining a spluttering 2-stroke car. Jalopy looks to replicate the wild yet philosophical voice of the road found in the great literary experiences such as Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Jalopy holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 24 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 29 hrs, roughly 2.2 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Jalopy launched on 28 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.
Official trailer
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